Noenoe Silva | |
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Born | October 19, 1954 O'ahu, Hawai'i |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Kanaka Maoli history,Hawaiian language texts,Kanaka Maoli theory |
Notable works | Aloha Betrayed:Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism |
Website | https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/noenoe-silva/ |
Noenoe K. Silva (born October 19,1954) [1] is a Hawaiian author and scholar. A professor of political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, [2] her work has appeared in Biography , American Studies , [3] and The Contemporary Pacific . [4]
Silva was born on Oʻahu and is of Kanaka Maoli [5] descent. She returned to Hawaii in 1985 after growing up in California. In 1991,she earned a bachelor's in Hawaiian language. In 1993,she completed a Master's degree in Library and Information Studies,and in 1999 earned a PhD in political science.
While still a doctoral candidate,Silva was instrumental in rediscovering the KūʻēPetitions,which had been presented to the United States government in 1897 in an attempt to halt American annexation of Hawaii. [6] The petitions formed part of the basis for her book Aloha Betrayed:Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism,an examination of Hawaiian language accounts of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. [7]
In 2006,Silva received a Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship from the School for Advanced Research to continue her research along similar lines through building a database of Hawaiian authors. [8]
Silva also contributed to A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language,an updated reprint of the first Hawaiian-English dictionary prepared by Lorrin Andrews in 1865,which was published by Island Heritage in 2003. [9]
Aloha Betrayed received the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize from Brigham Young University–Hawaii. [10]
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